compassion

Compassion is the wish for sentient beings to be free from suffering and its causes. Posts include teachings and meditations on how to develop and increase compassion.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.
Chenrezig

Eight verses of thought transformation: Verses 1-3

Seeing others as karmic bubbles in order to loosen our rigid conception of them.

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.
Chenrezig

Chenrezig retreat discussion: Part 1

Being kind and skillful yet incredibly firm. Being an effective, capable human being, not a…

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Bleeding heart flowers in the Sravasti Abbey garden.
Chenrezig

Introduction to Chenrezig practice

An overview of the practice of Chenrezig, explaining the meaning and purpose of visualization and…

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Cultivating Compassion

Curing our self-centeredness

Compassion can serve as a powerful antidote to our self-preoccupation and free us from our…

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A shirtless young boy walking down a city street.
On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Street kids

An incarcerated person's harrowing account of his childhood growing up on the streets, and his…

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On Love, Compassion, and Bodhicitta

Working with People in Prison

Working with people in prison requires a mindset of humility and understanding: an incarcerated person…

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Cover of book Open Heart, Clearn Mind.
Open Heart, Clear Mind

Meditation and the Buddhist approach

Talks focusing on the practical application of Buddhist psychology for understanding ourselves and improving the…

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A man sitting on a giant book, both hands on his head and looking down on the floor, appearing to be in agony.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Renounce suffering, practice joyfully

Comments on a section of the Lamrim chenmo by Lama Tsongkhapa. Explains the types and…

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Stone statue of Kuan Yin under a tree covered in snow.
Chenrezig Winter Retreat 2006-07

Bodhisattva practices

A bodhisattva's mind; the purpose of meditating on death and impermanence; the role of intellect…

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Stone statue of Kuan Yin under a tree covered in snow.
Chenrezig Winter Retreat 2006-07

Meditation on emptiness

How to deal with attachment to what others think of us; meditating on compassion and…

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Sonam Gyatso the Third Dalai Lama
Essence of Refined Gold

Relying on a spiritual friend

What it means to rely on a spiritual mentor, considering the benefit a teacher brings…

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